Quality of life?! You'd be asking the wrong person the wrong question if
you came to my door...
But I'd invite you in and offer you a Thai-style rollerblade ass-massage:
"A full course of Thai massage typically lasts two hours or more, and
includes pulling fingers, toes, ears etc., cracking the knuckles,
walking on the recipient's back, arching the recipient's back in a
rolling action etc.... Sometimes... the practitioners do the procedures
in unison."
-- www.wikipedia.org
(Now go back and notice my deliberate and misleading edit.)

The graph of the commute times for different parts of the world are in
Figure 1 of:
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/TIP_transport/transport.pdf
You decide what is typical. It looks like about an hour per day of travel
is typical for the world.

Very interesting; thanks. The figures feel right (although they
appear to be "travel time per day", rather than single-commute
times).
When I studied with Hans Blumenfeld in the mid 1970s, his intuitive
sense (which usually proved to be sound) was that the historical
determinant/limiter of city size was the area which could be
covered in 30 minutes by the dominant mode of travel
(foot/horse/train/car).
That still seems about right, and I think it's why the natives get
restless when that average (due to congestion, say) goes much
higher, and the mode starts slipping out to, say, a 40-minute
commute.
I'm sceptical of George's "average commute time" of "about 20
minutes, more or less"; it sounds suspiciously low.

That would be 40 minutes per day commuting and roughly 20 minutes per day
for other things like shopping, driving the kids to things, and going out
for entertainment.
I think his 20 minutes for a one way commute is from census data.

If you, say, knit (for profit) or write (a book to be published/sold),
while commuting to your 'other job', does that existentially reduce your
commute-times?
Do you transcend the graphs, or get your very own statistical
differentiations? ;)

Cook it as you like, but I'm also being half-double serious...
I mean, if you're already working while commuting, should that not be
factored into the statistical analyses? Do some numbers cancel each
other out?
...And what about Don-- the ACAD-master-- who, presumably, has to trudge
over across the vast wilderness to his office-- completely on the other
side of his property-- to practice his Craft?
Sickening, but it is Oct. 31st., afterall.

I certainly get the impression that he's not used to having his
positions countered with reasoned arguments, which is where all the
ad hominem stuff comes from.
Either that or -- more likely -- it's that in his usual circles, he's
blustered often and loudly enough that people just don't bother any
more -- which he takes as having 'won' the argument.
It's a bit sad, really.

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